We engage in a certain amount of self-censorship when preparing material for publication on this site. While we generally think that passive monitoring of websites is a Bad Idea™, we nevertheless do our best to cooperate with such efforts when asked to do so. This made reporting on Irhabi007 difficult as first he was active on al-Palsm and al-Erhap, and when those sites died he and his friends migrated to the al-Ansar forum. We continued to monitor his activities and archive what he published. Some examples of his work in that period:

21 March 2004

29 March 2004

11 April 2004

20 April 2004

26 April 2004

Irhabi007 was actively involved in gathering open source intelligence in support of terrorist operations and in popularizing the use of services like YouSendIt for sharing large files. The Israeli map program (20 April 2004 above) was pirated and distributed by Irhabi007 complete with a serial number. Such relatively mundane criminal activity is common in the global jihadist community.

19 April 2004

23 April 2004

You'll note that sometimes he posted in English. Irhabi007 is not a native speaker of Arabic and made use of translation software as needed.

22 June 2004